Well, I suppose some of you guys have been checking the site to see the latest weekly verbiage.  Sorry it is late but we don't all have the same satirical minds to come up with something like Pat did every week.  As well some of us actually have jobs.  Pat only works Tuesdays and Thursdays so he has a lot more time to come up with something.

MEDAL PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

     First off though I want to talk about the Medal Play Championship on July 31, August 1 and August 2.  The Medal Play Championship is another event started by Pat.  This event was originally inteneded to celebrate golf at our club - An event for every member when we all come together for a weekend of semi-competitive golf, camaraderie, a drink or two and, maybe, a little wagering thus, the Calcutta.

    I'm not sure how many of you know but every other golf course within a 2000 mile radius of Brantford has a medal play event and it's THE event of the season.  At other courses there are on-course leader boards, galleries, and waiting lists to get in.  A dinner held during the event is generally attended by about 300 people.  So far we have about 26 people signed up.  Hurray !!!  We need your help.  Obviously our men’s night participants love competition or we would not get so many out every week.  Most of you will be playing all 3 days of the long weekend, most of you drink and everyone bets on something.  Please help us grow this event into the premier event of the golf season.  If you have not signed up please do so.  The sheets are in the Men’s Lounge and there will be flights and prizes for all.   (Based on the sign-up so far, it looks like everyone will be getting a Scotty Cameron putter)

      As well it has been confirmed by Pat that Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson and David Hearn will not be playing. There is still an outside hope for Tiger Woods but he wants to know what our Waffle Houses are like and get some pictures of waitresses.

Now here it is ............

THE WEEK THAT WAS

     I was very impressed with the shot making ability of a few of our members this week.  Especially on number 6.  When I arrived there the closet to the hole was someone named Blane Schell.  Blane’s ball was about 2 inches from the cup. When I received the markers at the end of the night not 1 but 2 other of our golf buddies must have been even closer.  First up was Norm General.  From the position of Blane’s Ball he must have been about 1 inch away.  Not to be outdone Graham Young came in later even closer!!  Luckily, the members of the Men's Night Committee are skilled at golf and common sense and we've seen both Norm and Graham swing a club which means we knew there was no way this could be possible.  Okay, for you dolts out there, here are a few rules and regulations to follow when playing on Wednesday’s

• When you take out the stake for closest to the hole, keg, closest to the pin in regulation, longest putt, etc to putt out, please remember to put it back in its previous position!!  Hopefully this will not be too hard to follow for the rest of the season.  I know for a fact I was already ripped off once this year because one of you dolts but that is another story.

• Long Drive – this can only be won 1 time by the same guy.  You got that Hendershott.  Do not put your name on the  stake just because you want everyone to know you finally hit a fairway.

     Hopefully as Forrest Gump once said “that’s all I have to say about that”

     I was looking at the Standings for the year and found it interesting to see the names of the first 4 captains.  When we try to get captains at the beginning of the year it is very hard.  A lot of people are scared, feel that it would interrupt their stellar golf games, alienate themselves from their friends etc.  It was refreshing to see two new captains, Jeff Shannon and Paul Johnson, doing stellar jobs.  I know most people know Paul Johnson as he plays daily and is on the board but who the hell had heard of Jeff Shannon before this year.  I had Jeff on my team the last time I won the championship (only Captain to win 2 in a row by the way) but did not know him at all. As a matter of fact I knew his wife better than I knew him.  Now before you guys start thinking some unhealthy thoughts it is only because I played a match with Jeff one year. I got to know his wife better than him that day because she basically told me their whole story, marriage, kids, where they live etc while Jeff was doing his pre shot routine on the first hole. I know you guys who play with him regularly know what I am talking about.

      It was also great to see the top 2 teams being captained being lead by returnees John Horan and Jeff Barclay. Although both have very limited talent they sure did a fine job picking their teams and are doing way better than last year.

     On a personal note it seems that my dream season is coming to a end with my brutal 44 this week on the front nine.  At one point I was actually on the leaderboard for both Low Net and Low Gross.  Now I seem to be falling off the low gross side.  At least I am finishing my rounds though and not DNF’ing to keep my average down and costing my team.  Let's ttake it easy on the DNF's okay...  it was never intended as a Good Intention Point or for a way out of posting a crappy score.  Play it out and put your score in.  It's the right thing to do.

     Pat used to make a joke about me.  He said it was tough to know what I might shoot because I had'nt  played since the day before.  How about Horan?  2 rounds a day, 80 to 100 shots, carrying an 80 lb bag with over 100 balls in it. 12 advil and 6 ginger ales ---- priceless.  John never knows how he's going to play as it was only 4 hours since his last game.  

     As for Barclay, or as we call him, the Polish prince.  He did not have very much time to review the stats from last year due to a heavy schedule that kept him in Poland for a couple of weeks for work.  I think he found the secret to his success here.  Not thinking.

      It looks like it is going to be down to the wire this year as no team is making a so called “Murphy March“ to the finish. It should get very exciting

     IMPORTANT - We have Men's Night on July 28th and then we'll skip a week (August 4th) to celebrate the greens aerificaion.  Men's Night will continue on Wednesday August 11th.  The Playoffs begin August 25th so every score, every point and every shot is important from here on in.  Not that all that stuff hasn't been important for the last two and a half months be I'm trying to build to some drama here.  

Well boys that is it for this week,

Murph